What is home? I’m now back in Nagoya, which for the moment is home. I have an apartment, it is where I work, and I have a lot of my “things.” I came from Los Angeles, which is where I own my home and which I consider to be my home. It was great to be in my place where I have all of my things that are not in Nagoya. I have a dryer that can dry clothes in under 3 hours without completely wrinkling them. I have three floors of living space. I have a walk-in closet, a dresser AND a window seat in my bedroom. I visited Indiana during my trip as well. Indiana is where I grew up, sometimes it is where I am from, and I still refer to it as home, like “I will not be home for Christmas.” I have no material possessions left in Indiana, but I do have family there. But now I’m back in Nagoya, home, in a fierce battle with jetlag.

While in the States, I think I was single-handedly trying to stimulate the economy. As I write this on my desktop, I now have a MacBook and a PowerBook G4 hooked to each other so the G4 can migrate to the MacBook. Yes, I bought the new MacBook.

Of course, I feel that I needed it. I chose to downsize a little to make it more transportable. Moving from 15 to 13 inches doesn’t seem like that much, but it is lighter and more compact. Also changing from a Motorola chip to Intel should improve application performance. I even have a buyer lined up for my old computer, which is nice.

While I was home, I also bought some clothes. As winter approaches I felt like I needed to update my wardrobe to fill in some gaps with clothes that fit. I now have a new coat, dress shirts, dress pants, and socks. My book and DVD library has also expanded.

I apparently left my voice in the US. I caught the cold that everyone seemed to have. My voice almost completely disappeared. I don’t sound like “me” currently, but at least I can be heard. Yesterday, complicated by all the flying, I could barely be heard.

The weather has turned significantly more winter-y than before I left. My apartment could even be considered to have a chill in the air. Mind you, whenever I have jetlag, temperature control is one of the first things to go. As I said before, I definitely have jetlag at the moment.

Even though I went to the dentist is LA, I didn’t find time to get my haircut. I went out today and accomplished that task. This time, however, I pulled pictures from a magazine to be able to show the guy who cuts my hair. He couldn’t make me look the model, but the haircut isn’t bad.